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I'm going to play the whole game again as I didn't get the platinum the first time around and I also can't remember how to play the game or do anything in it at all.

Rewarding the biggest fans by asking them to pay more for the full experience is certainly a strategy.

Hopefully this has cost them so much money that they can't afford to keep making Sonic games.

I do hope this is true and they're not remaking Snake Eater. If they're remaking one it should be the original MGS. I'm not convinced an MGS remake would actually be good but that's the one that needs it most and if it is good then it's a win.

Kingdom Come Deliverance is a banger. Love that game.

I'm not sure I believe this news story. People were very vocal on Twitter about boycotting the game and telling people not to play it, and I'm pretty sure that usually works out and never has the opposite effect.

It's actually a bit longer for me. The last Final Fantasy I really liked was IX, but the sort of VI, VII, VIII, and IX run made Final Fantasy my favourite game series - at the time, anyway - and so I'm always interested to see what they do next. I've long since given up on the idea of them just doing a Final Fantasy like I want a Final Fantasy, but of the newer twists on the formula XVI is easily the one I'm most excited for.

I'm looking forward to reviewing this one.

I've only ever seen the reveal trailer because I was watching the showcase. I'm not going to watch the State of Play for this so I'll just go in pretty fresh.

Sony's cloud gaming is pretty bad, honestly. My Internet is like sci-fi future speeds Internet. It downloads gigs in seconds. It's unnecessarily fast for what I use it for (i.e. basically nothing). And if I play anything on my PS5 streamed it chugs like a Switch trying to run last gen games. It's legit hopeless.

I keep giving it another go every now and again to see if it's improved but it doesn't seem to have as of a couple of months ago when I last tried.

I keep playing these games for some reason. I'll play this one too. It's just the way it is.

Fantastic news. Dragging this out would just be a waste of resources and I'm looking forward to seeing Media Molecule make an actual game.

The combat in XII is pretty rubbish so that shouldn't be too hard.

I don't like the Final Fantasy X map but then I don't really like Final Fantasy X so that might influence that. Either way this isn't a big issue for me.

I am so excited. This is going to derail my backlog but whatever.

They better all have platinums, and I am going to get all the platinums.

I actually stream games to my phone using the remote play app quite frequently - visual novels, other basic things like that - and even I have zero interest in this.

At some point they're going to shadow drop the new Persona game and nobody will even know because we've all stopped tuning in to these things after so many disappointments.

@get2sammyb I'll double my sub if you make a Push Square officially branded shirt that just has a screenshot of my Alan Wake review crudely printed on it.

I've subbed purely so I can have a badge to demonstrate that I'm better than anybody that doesn't have one.

@HarmanSmith They're a studio that on their best day makes a 6 or a 7 and we need a 9 or a 10. It's like letting Michael Bay remake Die Hard.

@MonkeyNinja506 Ha, yeah, I mean their normal superhero clothes. Not like Peter Parker in his school uniform or whatever. I don't know anything about comics but I probably will play this at some point as I like tactics games and I like some superhero movies.

Seems to be a wise opinion. Even if it's a good remake, that won't be good enough. It needs to be amazing because that's how people remember the original. And coming from a studio like Bloober, it seems unlikely it'll be amazing.

In Midnight Suns can you have the characters wearing their normal clothes or do they always wear the horrid yellow ones?

I have no idea what Midnight Suns is or what it's based on or whether any of this makes sense. I just want the four superheroes I know to look like I think they look if I ever play it.

This looks like a me game. I'm in.

This sounds like a perfect remake for me because the one thing that always sours me a little on Resident Evil 4 is the island bit towards the end which goes full blown action and seems to last forever.

I thought this looked cool.

Glad I didn't end up getting this one for review! :')

The important story beats of Part II falls into roughly the same number of episodes as season one - maybe you'd need ten episodes this time - by my reckoning at least.

But one of my favourite things about The Last of Us on HBO has been how they've expanded the story of the game, and so I'm happy for them to go even further with the next series.

@Ralizah This is exactly how I feel. The Persona 5 Royal trophy list is still a 100+ hour commitment but there's lots of wiggle room compared to the original which was almost two complete playthroughs and you needed to absolutely nail the second one to finish all social links.

This sounds like a good laugh for a Sunday afternoon.

I am so in for this.

Just looking at these screenshots is giving me anxiety.

@jFug Pretty sure it was locked 60. No frame drops or other technical problems.

No I will slouch in my couch until the day I die in four years time from complications due to an appalling posture.

@jrt87 This was a tough one to review because of that. There's a lot of problems with the game, but as someone who loves old school survival horror games I also found the game to be nostalgic and fun. It's hard to balance that with what is obviously a bad camera and rubbish controls. So what I'll say is, if you love old Resident Evil etc. before all the explosions, back when it had tank controls, and you miss those days, you're going to like this game probably.

@ShogunRok Yeah, I think I'm fine with committing to a ridiculous quest to play loads of sixty hour RPGs. That's the kind of silly think I'd do anyway. I loved Cold Steel but I was confused a bit in the second one by the ending - I had no idea who anyone was or what was happening. Still played 3 and liked it though.

I'm thinking I'll probably just look up a list of the correct order to play them in chronologically and then once they're all out I'll play them.

@ShogunRok This is probably a tedious question but I'm interested from the perspective of a fan. I've played Trails of Cold Steel 1, 2, and 3, and I got a bit into 4 but lost interest despite loving the others. Do you think the best way to approach this series is to play them in chronological order once they're all available (I don't know if they are yet, there's millions of them) or go back to Cold Steel IV?

I feel like I might have done myself a disservice starting with Cold Steel and I might just play the whole saga and work my way back to it.

They should really make a wrestling game that is exclusively old wresters from the '80s and '90s that I know. I don't want to play as one of these people with normal names. I want to play as the wrestling bin man or the plumber or the evil dentist.

I'm always wary of straying too far into anime hijinks territory but this does look good to me.

This isn't what I want from Final Fantasy, but then Final Fantasy hasn't been what I want longer than it has so what does it matter? At the very least this sounds like something I will at least like which is an improvement over everything post IX.

@mrraditch I know everyone hates day one DLC but yeah, I much prefer it. I play an outrageous number of games and I'm not very good at going back to things once I get out of the mindset of playing them.

So I really like Game of the Year editions for games I missed so I can just play the whole thing in one go. If it's a DLC that comes a year after a game, I usually either play the game again to get back into it (like I'll do for Cyberpunk later in the year, or Horizon Forbidden West, probably) or I ignore it. I very rarely play a DLC on its own.

I mostly ignore DLC after the fact but there are exceptions and this is one of them. I am so in for this.

DEFINITIVE RANKING BY ME (OFFICIAL BEST LIST)

Yakuza 0
Yakuza Kiwami 2
Yakuza Like A Dragon
Like A Dragon Ishin (subject to change)
Yakuza 4
Yakuza Kiwami
Yakuza 6: The Song of Life
Yakuza 5
Lost Judgement
Judgement
Yakuza 3

All of this list is liable to change whatever day you ask me.

I seem to recall not really like Dragon Age Origins when I played it at the time but I also can't remember anything about it. I seem to recall I did quite like Dragon Inquisition when I played it at the time but I can't remember anything about that one either.

It's like they made this game in a fallout shelter with no connection to the outside world for the last six years.

I am the idiot sandwich.

Will it have more haircuts. Thats my major concern.

I'm playing it. 50% of the way through the completion list. Absolutely love the farm stuff for some reason.

I could probably win that tournament but I just don't wanna.

@rawzeku I'm not sure if it's technically possible to progress in the game without building, but you could certainly limit it if you want and only use it when required. I'm not sure why you would though, since it's incredibly useful and relatively easy to get your head around.

@Th3solution In the first half of the game it seems like there's an overabundance of healing water, and the enemies never seem to attack you faster than you can heal. So you take a hit and it drops you to a third of your health, so one more would kill you, but the wait for the enemy to attack again is lengthy, so you always have time to heal. You can pretty much win through attrition.

You also don't need to pay too much attention to elemental damage or anything special like that. As long as you keep upgrading your weapons and armour (which is straightforward) you should be fine.

It's actually detrimental in a way because when it got harder in the second half I had to almost relearn how to play the game because I'd be slacking off since it was easy.

Crafting is super easy. You go to the blacksmith and say you want to get a sword, it will tell you what items you need. Then you can look at the encyclopedia and see where you get them then get them. It's very streamlined compared to Monster Hunter, as most of the game is.